Category: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists

Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: First baby born at Lumsden maternal and child hub

The fact that a second baby has been born in northern Southland while the mother was on her way to a primary birthing unit is proof that the Lumsden Maternity Centre should have stayed open, Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker says.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: World Medical Association welcomes decision on burnout

The World Medical Association has given a warm welcome to the decision by the World Health Assembly to classify work related burnout as a problem that influences health status and to include it in the new version of the international code of diseases 

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Government policy makes people ill – and the NHS pays the price

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has been remarkably successful in prising more money for the health service out of the government, but short-term ministerial thinking about the service and its resources has resulted in an unedifying, dysfunctional scramble for cash in austerity Britain. Finally, though, ideas are emerging that could change all that.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Government’s mental health response a positive step forward; now for the detail

“The Government’s response to its mental health review appears to be a significant step in the right direction but we now need the detail to see how much of a difference it will truly make,” says Lyndon Keene, Director of Policy and Research at the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Syphilis outbreak shows decision to cut sexual health doctors clearly short-sighted

The struggle to contain Auckland’s syphilis outbreak is hardly surprising given the flawed decision by the city’s health bosses several years ago to cut the number of senior sexual health doctors in the region, says Sarah Dalton, Industrial Officer at the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: ‘We have pretty much nothing’ – Te Anau maternity services

Te Anau residents say promised maternity services haven’t been delivered, leaving mothers and midwives in a precarious situation. The Southern District Health Board announced a maternal and child hub for the town after downgrading the Lumsden Maternity Centre. But the hub isn’t ready and residents say they’ve been left in the dark about why.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Five-day junior doctors’ strike begins

Thousands of junior doctors are walking off the job from 8am, for their longest strike yet. It’s the fifth strike by the members of the Resident Doctors Association and this time will run for five days in all regions except Canterbury, which has been spared due to the Christchurch terror attacks. Members will also protest outside the Health Minister David Clark’s office in Dunedin on Monday. Courtney Brown is a junior doctor at Hutt Valley DHB, and is the president of the Resident Doctors’ Association.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Health Minister warns Waikato DHB over growing deficit

The Health Minister is poised to sack the entire Waikato District Health Board and replace it with a commissioner. David Clark has told the embattled DHB he’s seriously dissatisfied with its performance and increasingly worried about its growing deficit. He’s giving the board two weeks to tell him what they think before he makes a final decision. Mr Clark is not commenting further.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Q&A: ‘Medical manslaughter’ a growing worry

A UK neurologist and medical law campaigner just visited the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences to discuss “medical manslaughter” – when doctors are charged over the deaths of patients. Dr Jenny Vaughan was the medical lead for a group that helped overturn the conviction of a UK consultant surgeon, Dr David Sellu. Since these events, grassroots support has grown from thousands of healthcare in support of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee paediatrician who was convicted of manslaughter in 2014 after the death of a child in Leicester. Thousands of frontline medical staff crowd-funded a campaign and successfully overturned a court decision to erase her from the UK medical register. Her case proved huge in the UK, for a profession at breaking point. At the Doctor’s Association UK, advocates have worked with national organisations and the media in order to highlight how healthcare staff are working on critically under-staffed wards and in under-resourced departments, with an increasingly unmanageable workload.

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Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: New Zealand Medical Students Support Ban on Semi-Automatic Weapons

In the wake of the terrorist attack on the Muslim community in Christchurch, New Zealand’s medical students strongly support the Government’s ban on military style semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines, which will progress through Parliament this week. “Every possible step must be taken to ensure a tragedy like this never happens again in our country,” says the President of the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA), Fraser Jeffery. “These weapons can too easily be modified to take multiple human lives in a short space of time and should not be in the hands of private citizens.”

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